http://boingboing.net/2015/07/10/cthulhu-amigurumis.html/feed0Teaching image-recognition algorithms to produce nightmarish hellscapeshttp://boingboing.net/2015/06/20/teaching-image-recognition-alg.html
http://boingboing.net/2015/06/20/teaching-image-recognition-alg.html#commentsSat, 20 Jun 2015 15:49:53 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=399020
In "Inceptionism," scientists at Google Research describe their work training neural nets with sets of images, then tweaking the "layers" of neural net nodes to produce weird outcomes.]]>
In "Inceptionism," scientists at Google Research describe their work training neural nets with sets of images, then tweaking the "layers" of neural net nodes to produce weird outcomes.

I've seen lots of tldrs of the paper, but the best so far comes from JWZ:

So then they reach inside to one of the layers and spin the knob randomly to fuck it up. Lower layers are edges and curves. Higher layers are faces, eyes and shoggoth ovipositors.

...But the best part is not when they just glitch an image -- which is a fun kind of embossing at one end, and the "extra eyes" filter at the other -- but is when they take a net trained on some particular set of objects and feed it static, then zoom in, and feed the output back in repeatedly. That's when you converge upon the platonic ideal of those objects, which -- it turns out -- tend to be Giger nightmare landscapes. Who knew. (I knew.)

The toys are cast in the scale and style of the original Star Wars figures I obsessed over as a child, and are pitch perfect from packaging to detailing and accessories. Choose from Spawn of Cthulhu (w/Necronomicon and removable wings), Cultist (w/staff, dagger, and removable robe and mask), Deep One (w/spear) and Professor (w/revolver and Cthulhu idol).

http://boingboing.net/2015/03/17/alternate-universe-star-wars.html/feed0Eutopia: horror novel about Lovecraftian racismhttp://boingboing.net/2015/03/10/eutopia-horror-novel-about-lo.html
http://boingboing.net/2015/03/10/eutopia-horror-novel-about-lo.html#commentsTue, 10 Mar 2015 14:00:32 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=370643Eutopia confronts the racial overtones of Lovecraftian fiction head on, revealing a terrifying story of the American eugenics movement and the brutality underbelly of utopianism.]]>
You may recall David Nickle's essay about the inseparable nature of HP Lovecraft's support for eugenics and his horror. It made an excellent intellectual argument, but that's nothing to the emotional punch of the novel inspired by the subject, 2011's Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism.

Doctor Andrew Waggoner -- a Paris-educated Black American doctor -- is hospitalized by Klansman in the utopian settlement of Eliada, Idaho, where he soon encounters Jason Thistledown, the sole survivor of a plague that wiped out the town of Cracked Wheel, Montana. The two of them become unlikely allies in uncovering the mystery of "Mr Juke," a strange creature housed in the hospital's enormous quarantine.

Mr Juke is a monster, of an ancient race of parasites whose offspring incubate in the wombs of human women, and who are able to inspire religious ecstasy in the people who serve them. Mr Juke and his kind might have lived undiscovered in the back country, in grotesque symbiosis with the hill people, if not for Eliada's eugenics project, through which hill people are systematically catalogued and sterilized "to improve the race."

The biology of the monsters is handled beautifully, and may call to mind the books of Peter Watts, such as Blindsight and its recent sequel, Echopraxia -- no coincidence, as the two workshop together in Toronto's Cecil Street group.

It's a story of piano-wire suspense, grotesque horrors, and, above all, visceral insight into the race politics of American horror, and how they are bound up with the American project itself, the many groups who set out to carve themselves utopias in the "endless" wilderness of the frontier, treating it all as terra nullus and the other humans -- especially poor, indigenous and black people -- as inconveniences to be despatched.

This is a story with many different villains, all of whom seem to be on the same side, but each of whom is eventually revealed to be playing their own game. What seems like a unified ideological front at first is revealed as a marriage of convenience or an emergent property. This complex story of how unthinkable evil can arise from so many disparate incentives is one of the best of the many truths in this book.

The set is huge and pretty much totally perfect, each piece distinctive and bursting with hints of untold narrative and years of imprisonment on the sea-bottom. She's based in New York State, and has a form for people interested in purchasing the pieces. She also has some beautiful prints for sale at $60 each.

There is so much fastidious control involved in
creating each
one of the
Bottom Feeder
pieces, but with ceramics there is
always a margin for error, and some degree of control must be sacrificed. The
composition of barnacles and crustaceans populating each piece, the way the
iron oxide discovers every nook of the creatures I've created, the way the
tentacles warp in the firings, etc., is always a surprise. I’m never exactly
sure how anything’s going to turn out. By allowing myself to be fully present
in the creation of the different parts of these pieces but then giving in to
the composition and glazing process gives each piece its own identity.
In the
end, one type of beauty is enhanced by complementing its foil, resulting in
two completely different aesthetics existing harmoniously as one piece.

http://boingboing.net/2014/11/21/bottom-feeders-plates-and-cup.html/feed0Kickstarting a comic about HP Lovecraft's worldhttp://boingboing.net/2014/10/28/kickstarting-a-comic-about-hp.html
http://boingboing.net/2014/10/28/kickstarting-a-comic-about-hp.html#commentsTue, 28 Oct 2014 23:00:18 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=341369
Craig Engler writes, "It's a dirty, gritty story about magick, monsters and the occult. It takes place in a modern-day world where H.P.]]>
Craig Engler writes, "It's a dirty, gritty story about magick, monsters and the occult. It takes place in a modern-day world where H.P. Lovecraft the writer never existed but where all the horrors he wrote about are real. In this story, the man named Lovecraft is the world's foremost magician and alchemist who maintains a secret library of forbidden knowledge which includes books like the Necronomicon.

$10 gets you the 48-page PDF; $15 gets you a hardcopy and the PDF.

Lovecraft is a classic Byronic antihero: 'Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.' He functions as the semi-reluctant guardian of mankind, one of the few who can traffic with occult forces without becoming (totally) corrupted by them. In his world, magicians are a secret culture within the culture who vie for power and knowledge, leading to feuds and wars that can unleash unspeakable terrors. When they do, Lovecraft is the guy who cleans things up.

http://boingboing.net/2014/10/17/massive-tentacle-covered-anno.html/feed0Mickthulhu Mousehttp://boingboing.net/2014/09/30/mickthulhu-mouse.html
http://boingboing.net/2014/09/30/mickthulhu-mouse.html#commentsTue, 30 Sep 2014 22:00:33 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=334691
A tee from the Neatorama shop: $20.
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A tee from the Neatorama shop: $20.
]]>http://boingboing.net/2014/09/30/mickthulhu-mouse.html/feed0Lauren Beukes's Broken Monstershttp://boingboing.net/2014/09/22/lauren-beukess-broken-monste.html
http://boingboing.net/2014/09/22/lauren-beukess-broken-monste.html#commentsMon, 22 Sep 2014 16:58:42 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=333037Broken Monsters marries the snappy, hard-boiled cleverness of her 2010 novel Zoo City with the visceral horror of 2013's The Shining Girls and yields up a tale that's as terrifying as it is contemporary -- Cory Doctorow reviews Broken Monsters.]]>
Beukes's latest supernatural horror/crime novel does of lot of difficult things very well. The first thing, of course, is the horror. She builds it in incremental, almost innocuous steps, punctuated by the grotesque murders around which the book revolves. BAM! Murder, then bit by bit, circling the murder, the horror, a thermostat dialed up by slow degrees, the shivers going down your spine as a police detective, a drifter, a tormented artist and a young girl begin to unravel the story of a murdered child whose body is found with its legs removed, and in their place, the crudely preserved hindquarters of a young deer.

Which brings me to the other hard thing that Beukes does here, which is balance a large -- even sometimes huge -- cast of characters, each of them distinct, none of them entirely reliable, and all of them -- even the murderer -- sympathetic, at least some of the time. Beukes uses character-shifts to tease us, to prolong the moments when the tension rises, bringing us to almost unendurable plateaus of suspense.

And then there's the third hard thing that Beukes does, which is tell a story about Detroit that is neither ruin-porn nor a glossy canned narrative about a "reboot" of a city that is, after all, the home of people, and not a piece of faulty software or a 40-year-old science fiction franchise.

Broken Monsters is a horror novel about the zeitgeist, a Dracula kind of novel -- like Stoker, Beukes uses incidental, technical prose to fill in the edges of the story (Stoker used telegrams to show us the modern light against the ancient dark; Beukes's social media excerpts are much more skeptical about the inherent rational light of technology than Stoker's Victorian sensibility would admit).

Besides Stoker, there are two other horror greats in Broken Monsters's ancestry: there are delicious, Clive Barker-ish ribbons of gore and perversity; mixed in with that is a Lovecraftian sense of the immense, awful cruelty of the elder gods, and in Stokerish fashion, these are all played off against modern foils: the smartphone-toting hipster scandalmonger; the catfishing, cyberbullied teen girls; the chorous of vigilante amateur sleuths on Reddit who're convinced that they will somehow solve the mystery before the cops do.

It's a big and ambitious book with a lot of moving parts, and it's quite an advance on Beukes's already impressive collection of works.

]]>http://boingboing.net/2014/09/22/lauren-beukess-broken-monste.html/feed0More ugly Christmas sweaters: Satan, Krampus, zombie Santa, D20 -- plus: RUGS!http://boingboing.net/2014/09/05/more-ugly-christmas-sweaters.html
http://boingboing.net/2014/09/05/more-ugly-christmas-sweaters.html#commentsSat, 06 Sep 2014 00:00:52 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=329617
It's been a year since we featured the amazing, Satan-and-sasquatch themed Christmas sweaters at Middle of Beyond, and they've brought out their new line, which includes a 2D tiger-skin rug, Shining runners, a D20 rug, D20 sweaters, Satanic cardigans, zombie Santa sweaters and so much more.]]>
It's been a year since we featured the amazing, Satan-and-sasquatch themed Christmas sweaters at Middle of Beyond, and they've brought out their new line, which includes a 2D tiger-skin rug, Shining runners, a D20 rug, D20 sweaters, Satanic cardigans, zombie Santa sweaters and so much more. I know what everyone's getting for Krampusmas this year!

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/05/more-ugly-christmas-sweaters.html/feed0Confronting Lovecraft's racismhttp://boingboing.net/2014/08/25/confronting-lovecrafts-racis.html
http://boingboing.net/2014/08/25/confronting-lovecrafts-racis.html#commentsMon, 25 Aug 2014 13:00:29 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=326734
Award-winning horror writer David Nickle has been repeatedly frustrated in his attempts to have a frank and serious discussion of HP Lovecraft's undeniable racism; people want to hand-wave it as being a product of Lovecraft's times, but it is inseparable from Lovecraft's fiction.]]>
Award-winning horror writer David Nickle has been repeatedly frustrated in his attempts to have a frank and serious discussion of HP Lovecraft's undeniable racism; people want to hand-wave it as being a product of Lovecraft's times, but it is inseparable from Lovecraft's fiction.

Nickle's novel Eutopia is a chilling horror story about the American eugenics movement, which Lovecraft embraced. As he persuasively argues, Lovecraft's belief in eugenics was not mainstream by any means, even in his day, and it is infused through Lovecraft's work -- what would "Call of Cthulhu" be without the "eugenically unfit denizens of the bayou or 'primitive' island cultures whose religious practises amount to a kind of proactive nihilism"?

Some manage to keep closer to Lovecraft's more specific anxieties, without embracing Lovecraft's awful conclusions. Catalan author Albert Sanchez Pinol, in his 2002 novel Cold Skin, delved into the same dank eugenic chambers as did "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"--dealing this time not with the progeny of a racially-mixed marriage, but with the inter-racial sexual politics between the potential parents, as his narrator-protagonist finds an uneasy erotic union with a female creature of a species very similar to Lovecraft's amphibious Deep Ones. It is, if you will, a xenophillic novel, with a dash of post-imperialist critique.

For me, the xenophobia angle remains the most interesting, and perhaps the most relevant. The legacy of racists like Lovecraft is still very much in play in contemporary society, from the Obama birthers to the Ferguson cops and most points between... and the discussion as to how to contain that legacy is far from over. In a perverse way, Lovecraft's retrograde and perverse views on race may be his most socially relevant contribution to 20th century weird literature... not as an advocate of his views, not by any means, but as an example of where we've been and what too many of us still share, an opportunity to critique those views through the lens of cosmic horror and alien gods.

It's a telling thing in our little community of weird fiction afficionados, that as much as we fetishize those immense and indestructible beasts and beings of the Cthulhu Mythos, the one monster that we cannot bring ourselves to face is the frail and fearful one who put it all together.

Citing the newly-established precedent of corporate-religious exemption, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of JCPenney, upholding the company's right to sacrifice pure-hearted employees in order to assuage the Dread Lord Cthulhu, Bringer of Madness.

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You knew this was coming, right?

Citing the newly-established precedent of corporate-religious exemption, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of JCPenney, upholding the company's right to sacrifice pure-hearted employees in order to assuage the Dread Lord Cthulhu, Bringer of Madness.

The Penney estate, devout cultists and owners of the multibillion-dollar chain of mid-range department stores, joined by CEO Mike Ullman, sued the government in 2012 when new federal employee protections made it illegal for them to hire virgin maidens for the sole purpose of spilling their blood on the Altar of the Cosmos, with the hope that such an offering will prolong the Great Old One's slumber in the sunken city of R'lyeh.

http://boingboing.net/2014/07/02/jc-penney-wins-supreme-court-v.html/feed0Kickstarting a Lovecraftian game where the object is to stay sane and alivehttp://boingboing.net/2014/07/01/kickstarting-a-lovecraftian-ga.html
http://boingboing.net/2014/07/01/kickstarting-a-lovecraftian-ga.html#commentsWed, 02 Jul 2014 01:00:07 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=315322
Labratory's kickstarting a new game: "Shadows of Arkham," which is pure Lovecraftian Ameri-trash for people who know that you can't fight the Elder Gods, but you might be able to avoid mind-death if you're quick enough.]]>

Labratory's kickstarting a new game: "Shadows of Arkham," which is pure Lovecraftian Ameri-trash for people who know that you can't fight the Elder Gods, but you might be able to avoid mind-death if you're quick enough.

Noah Swartz writes, "Labratory, the two person team of Sam Strick and Clayton Grey, who recently Kickstarted the successful micro-Eurogame Province, have just launched a new campaign for Shadows of Arkham. Unlike most big Lovecraft games where the characters are somehow able to directly fight the elder gods with shotguns and knives, your character in Shadows of Arkham will be fighting just to stay alive and sane as Arkham gets consumed by various types of otherworldly corruption. The game mechanics are simple and elegant, you draw double sided event cards from a central deck, which once you defeat them can come back to haunt you with their reverse side. The game may be micro, but it is still full of wonderful chits, beautiful character cards drawn by Sam, and a lots of other goodies. They're a little over halfway to their goal, with just over a week left to fund, so if you like Lovecraftian horror games, but don't like spending hours setting up the complicated boards that typically accompany them, this might just be the perfect game for you."

http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/squid-cuttlefish-trilobite-a.html/feed0Cthulhoid damask wallpaper (also fabric & wrapping paper)http://boingboing.net/2014/01/25/cthulhoid-damask-wallpaper-al.html
http://boingboing.net/2014/01/25/cthulhoid-damask-wallpaper-al.html#commentsSat, 25 Jan 2014 20:00:14 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=282819Megan Rose "Rosalarian" Gedris has created a cthulhoid damask pattern that's available on Spoonflower as a wallpaper, fabric, and gift-wrap. If you like this, don't miss her zombie brains pattern.]]>Megan Rose "Rosalarian" Gedris has created a cthulhoid damask pattern that's available on Spoonflower as a wallpaper, fabric, and gift-wrap. If you like this, don't miss her zombie brains pattern.

Designer Thom Browne's Look 27 is the couture/runway version of what the smart businessperson is wearing on the streets of R'lyeh this season.

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Designer Thom Browne's Look 27 is the couture/runway version of what the smart businessperson is wearing on the streets of R'lyeh this season. Oh, who will think of the plight of the Elder God Cultist in the Grey Flannel Suit?
(via M1k3y)
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http://boingboing.net/2014/01/22/couture-cthulu.html/feed0Cthulhoid My Little Pony toy mashuphttp://boingboing.net/2014/01/02/cthulhoid-my-little-pony-toy-m.html
http://boingboing.net/2014/01/02/cthulhoid-my-little-pony-toy-m.html#commentsThu, 02 Jan 2014 17:00:11 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=277431Little Maddie is Big Shot Toyworks's first character in a new toy line called "Friendship is Maddness."
(via Laughing Squid)
]]>Little Maddie is Big Shot Toyworks's first character in a new toy line called "Friendship is Maddness."
(via Laughing Squid)
]]>http://boingboing.net/2014/01/02/cthulhoid-my-little-pony-toy-m.html/feed0Cthulhu/Coke tee is back on salehttp://boingboing.net/2013/12/19/cthulhucoke-tee-is-back-on-sa.html
http://boingboing.net/2013/12/19/cthulhucoke-tee-is-back-on-sa.html#commentsThu, 19 Dec 2013 20:00:30 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=275253
Following from Tuesday's post about the sadly not-available Cthulhu/Coca-Cola tee, good news: it's back on sale!
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Following from Tuesday's post about the sadly not-available Cthulhu/Coca-Cola tee, good news: it's back on sale!
]]>http://boingboing.net/2013/12/19/cthulhucoke-tee-is-back-on-sa.html/feed0Cthulhoid Coca-Cola teehttp://boingboing.net/2013/12/17/cthulhoid-coca-cola-tee.html
http://boingboing.net/2013/12/17/cthulhoid-coca-cola-tee.html#commentsWed, 18 Dec 2013 01:00:07 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=274624

The bad news is that Tee Fury hasn't sold this smashing Obey Cthulhu/Coca Cola tee since July. The good news is that you can vote for them to bring it back.

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The bad news is that Tee Fury hasn't sold this smashing Obey Cthulhu/Coca Cola tee since July. The good news is that you can vote for them to bring it back. Vote!

http://boingboing.net/2013/12/17/cthulhoid-coca-cola-tee.html/feed0Felted chthulhoid Santa with Shoggothhttp://boingboing.net/2013/12/10/felted-chthulhoid-santa-with-s.html
http://boingboing.net/2013/12/10/felted-chthulhoid-santa-with-s.html#commentsTue, 10 Dec 2013 21:09:28 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=273349Amy L. Rawson continues her tradition of creating felted cthulhoid Santas for the holiday season (see last year's); the current iteration is $595 on Etsy, and includes a 4lb epoxy/wire "octisleigh" pulled by a "rapidly morphing, protoplasmic vision of a Shoggoth." It's 13" long, 7" high, not including the Shoggoth.]]>Amy L. Rawson continues her tradition of creating felted cthulhoid Santas for the holiday season (see last year's); the current iteration is $595 on Etsy, and includes a 4lb epoxy/wire "octisleigh" pulled by a "rapidly morphing, protoplasmic vision of a Shoggoth." It's 13" long, 7" high, not including the Shoggoth. From her post on the piece:

Santa is needle felted entirely from wool. Oddly, this is the first year we've given the Santa Cthulhu wings. I have no real reason for that. In previous years I think we just got close to the finish line and thought, "Wings? Nah, that'd be more work ..."

The shoggoth is a writhing, amoeba-like mass of needle felted pustules, eyes, appendages and teeth. A shoggoth is a constantly changing creature. As such, it's somewhat difficult to put a yoke or harness on it. Santa just hitches his sleigh up to a large metal ring that he has to trust the shoggoth to keep incorporated into its fluctuating body. Chains hitch the shoggoth's ring to the sleigh, and Santa holds leather straps as reins. The eyes are glass cabochons that we painted specifically for the shoggoth. The teeth are epoxy clay.

The Octi-Sleigh is a substantial sculpture I made specifically for this project. It has a wire armature covered with nearly 4 lbs of epoxy clay. It is painted with acrylics, and I'd just like to point out that this was my very first attempt at painting with an airbrush! If you look back at the last several journal entries, you can see lots of work-in-progress photos of the sleigh.

http://boingboing.net/2013/12/10/felted-chthulhoid-santa-with-s.html/feed0Cthulhu Christmas ornamenthttp://boingboing.net/2013/11/18/cthulhu-christmas-ornament.html
http://boingboing.net/2013/11/18/cthulhu-christmas-ornament.html#commentsMon, 18 Nov 2013 14:49:52 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=268723
Jason McKittrick writes, "A Cthulhu Christmas ornament for those who wish to celebrate the solstice in a more eldritch fashion!
This cyclopean adornment depicts Great Cthulhu squeezing his massive tentacled form through the hieroglyphic covered door of his ancient stone tomb in R'lyeh and will add the necessary touch of madness to your holiday tree.]]>
Jason McKittrick writes, "A Cthulhu Christmas ornament for those who wish to celebrate the solstice in a more eldritch fashion!
This cyclopean adornment depicts Great Cthulhu squeezing his massive tentacled form through the hieroglyphic covered door of his ancient stone tomb in R'lyeh and will add the necessary touch of madness to your holiday tree.
Each Cthulhu Yuletide Ornament is hand cast in solid resin and comes ready to hang with a black satin ribbon. Signed and numbered by artist Jason McKittrick."

The WaterstonesOxfordSt Twitter account is staffed by someone pretty darned funny, as evidenced by The Call of Cthulhu, a series of tweets describing what happened when a patron read aloud from the Necronomicon and unleashed an Elder God.

http://boingboing.net/2013/10/21/cthulhu-visits-a-waterstones.html/feed0Astounding game-tokens from Cthulhu Wars, the $1.4M kickstarted board-gamehttp://boingboing.net/2013/10/04/astounding-game-tokens-from-ct.html
http://boingboing.net/2013/10/04/astounding-game-tokens-from-ct.html#commentsFri, 04 Oct 2013 19:52:12 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=259775
I'm the guest of honor this weekend at Fencon in Dallas, which is just getting started. One of the exhibitors is Cthulhu Wars, the Lovecraftian boardgame that raised over $1.4M on Kickstarter (they were looking for $40K).]]>
I'm the guest of honor this weekend at Fencon in Dallas, which is just getting started. One of the exhibitors is Cthulhu Wars, the Lovecraftian boardgame that raised over $1.4M on Kickstarter (they were looking for $40K). They've brought along the prototype for the game, and the tokens are amazing. They were kind enough to let me photograph them, and I've uploaded the hi-rezes to my Flickr; there's a gallery of some of the best after the jump.

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http://boingboing.net/2013/10/04/astounding-game-tokens-from-ct.html/feed0Equoid, a new Laundry story by Charlie Strosshttp://boingboing.net/2013/09/24/equoid-a-new-laundry-story-by.html
http://boingboing.net/2013/09/24/equoid-a-new-laundry-story-by.html#commentsTue, 24 Sep 2013 20:16:02 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=257712
Charlie Stross and Tor.com have published Equoid, a new short story set in his wonderful Laundry universe, in which British secret agents battle Lovecraftian horrors with computational magic, and Bob must keep the computers running.]]>
Charlie Stross and Tor.com have published Equoid, a new short story set in his wonderful Laundry universe, in which British secret agents battle Lovecraftian horrors with computational magic, and Bob must keep the computers running.

“Bob! Are you busy right now? I’d like a moment of your time.”

Those thirteen words never bode well—although coming from my new manager, Iris, they’re less doom-laden than if they were falling from the lips of some others I could name. In the two months I’ve been working for her Iris has turned out to be the sanest and most sensible manager I’ve had in the past five years. Which is saying quite a lot, really, and I’m eager to keep her happy while I’ve got her.

“Be with you in ten minutes,” I call through the open door of my office; “got a query from HR to answer first.” Human Resources have teeth, here in the secretive branch of the British government known to its inmates as the Laundry; so when HR ask you to do their homework—ahem, provide one’s opinion of an applicant’s suitability for a job opening—you give them priority over your regular work load. Even when it’s pretty obvious that they’re taking the piss.

http://boingboing.net/2013/09/24/equoid-a-new-laundry-story-by.html/feed0Cthulhu pie!http://boingboing.net/2013/08/02/cthulhu-pie.html
http://boingboing.net/2013/08/02/cthulhu-pie.html#commentsSat, 03 Aug 2013 01:47:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=247345
This amazing Cthulhu pie may have originated on a message board (cached copy) with a user called Bear Bibeault, or maybe not.]]>
This amazing Cthulhu pie may have originated on a message board (cached copy) with a user called Bear Bibeault, or maybe not. Do you know?

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http://boingboing.net/2013/08/02/cthulhu-pie.html/feed0Cthulhu magnetshttp://boingboing.net/2013/08/02/cthulhu-magnets.html
http://boingboing.net/2013/08/02/cthulhu-magnets.html#commentsFri, 02 Aug 2013 22:00:29 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=247234
Jason McKittrick is selling a set of "Mythos Magnets" based on the Cthulhu stories, with bronze or silver finish. There's only 100 sets in the run, and they're $25 for a set of four.]]>
Jason McKittrick is selling a set of "Mythos Magnets" based on the Cthulhu stories, with bronze or silver finish. There's only 100 sets in the run, and they're $25 for a set of four.

http://boingboing.net/2013/08/02/cthulhu-magnets.html/feed0Octophant mural in east Londonhttp://boingboing.net/2013/07/23/octophant-mural-in-east-london.html
http://boingboing.net/2013/07/23/octophant-mural-in-east-london.html#commentsTue, 23 Jul 2013 22:46:20 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=244556
Artist Alexis Diaz painted this beautiful elephant-headed octopus mural near my flat in East London; I've just got back from Comic-Con and I'm going to make a special detour tomorrow to see it in person.]]>
Artist Alexis Diaz painted this beautiful elephant-headed octopus mural near my flat in East London; I've just got back from Comic-Con and I'm going to make a special detour tomorrow to see it in person. According to Colossal, the mural took a week to paint.

Spotted at Comic-Con: Arkham Bazaar's do-rags for great-old-one cultists. They look great in person, a real double-take on the classic elaborated bandanna design.

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Spotted at Comic-Con: Arkham Bazaar's do-rags for great-old-one cultists. They look great in person, a real double-take on the classic elaborated bandanna design. Subtle, like all things cthulhoid. $10, comes in red, black, or Cthluhu green.